SAD!!! Maybe this is why I (and so many people I know) have SO much trouble with fragrance! Most of it smells so awful to me and kind of all the same! phew! I like "pure" scents not a bunch of mixed up chemicals. Yuk! I've just started learning about all natural essential oils and they are fascinating. Hopefully I will be able to make my own "perfume" that will be healthy too! Thanks for this info!

I have a friend who was sensitized to fragrances when she lived in her house while remodeling was being done. She now cannot be around ANY scents - or her sense of taste and smell gets all out of whack! I am sure now it's because of the unnatural ingredients used.

Let's start boycotting THAT business, too. I buy fragrance-free whenever I can - and will work at it more diligently now!

The footnoted references and sources are weeeeeeee bit lacking "gravitas" shall we say. And with a Disclaimer that large at the bottom, I question the versasity of it all. But... that's me. I don't use perfume but on rare occasions. But I also don't take one source to be my guide.

Most perfumes are connected to a big name and that along with all the advertising paid for by the exorbitant cost they charge for the product doesn't mean they aren't short cutting the way the product is made at our expense.

Perfumes are completely unregulated by the FDA and their formulas are secret and protected by their owners. Many of their ingredients have been banned for consumption but we all know what goes into our lungs goes into our blood stream and thus to our organs and our brains.

Too many companies are being bought out and formulas/recipes changed due to their need to make MORE money at any cost to the consumer. (It's called GREED)

I can give you number of examples of products that have been changed. Why would they change them? To make them cheaper. Many times they don't work as well as the old product but theyc coast on our trust of the old product formulation and it's advertising. They buy out a company for it's reputation with the public then they change the product.

It's no different than a half gallon of ice cream becoming 3 pints or a half gallon of orange juice going to 59 ounces.

"Give them less, charge them the same and when they get used to paying the same for less, raise the price."

I have a hard time with fragrances as I have severe copd. Cancer patients also have a hard time with fragrances due to nausea and I wish women who go crazy with it would learn some consideration. I have been in desperate situations on elevators. I can not be around cleaning products either. A tip I learned is that vinager is as good as any cleaning product marketed. (mixed with water) as is baking soda. If you have these 2 things, you don't need anything else.